Rocket With 3-man Crew Lifts Off For Space Station

WochitMay. 28, 2014. 12:53 PM EST

A Russian rocket carrying a three-man crew to the International Space Station has blasted off suc...
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A Russian rocket carrying a three-man crew to the International Space Station has blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled at 1:57 a.m. Thursday and soared into the darkness over the Central Asian steppe in what a NASA commentator described as a "flawless launch." The crew — NASA's Reid Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Max Surayev and German Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency — were set to arrive at the orbiting station less than six hours later and remain there for six months.
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